You'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. You may get a one-time warning not to screw up. If you don’t have a login password, you’ll need to set one before you can run the command.

Reboot and run a backup. Check that the previously excluded files are now included. The backup may take much longer than usual.

Thanks for the suggestions... (had already seen them on other threads). The articles do not address this issue at all as they deal with basic setup and with TC (Time Capsule) issues not Time Machine issues...

Issue is not that the backups are interrupted or that they stall.. Time Machine says backups complete succesfully.. It's just that TM is ignoring everything but the contents of the Users folder.

Did the Unix command, but that did not solve the problem either.

Removed the TM backup and reformatted the external drive (Extended (Journaled) to see if re-setting it up from scratch would fix it.. still only backs up the "Users" folder completely skipping the OS and Applications.

I have worked with MANY Macs and with many Time Machine backups on my own Macs and on those of my clients... This is the first time I have ever seen anything like this and I am unable to find a similar situation out on the web or on these discussions.

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